An Entertaining Fantasy

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2002)

Although it is overly long and drags at times, I found the movie very entertaining. I particularly enjoyed the music. The cast is made up of no names who previously played only bit roles. It is a low budget movie but the scenery is usually authentic. Because the story is a fantasy, viewers have to overlook the unrealities. Such is how did 1900 learn to play the piano as well as he did without leaving the ship. My mother was a concert pianist and a music teacher and I learned to play the piano. To play a piano as well as 1900 required some extensive music lessons in order to master the keyboard as well as he did.

I have to hand it to Tim Roth. He did a marvelous job of playing the piano although it is unlikely that he actually played the music.

It was good enough that I watched it twice.